Multiple Positions Available
Amenity Pruning - Team Leaders and Team Members | Garden Maintenance - Team Leaders and Team Members
The Hedge Manis Adelaide's oldest gardening company.
We began many decades ago as a dedicated specialist hedging service which has now grown to offer full soft landscaping and gardening services to residential clients, private estates and discerning businesses.
We do not do rinse and repeat commercial work.
As one of Adelaide's leading green space companies and (still) Adelaide's premier hedge specialist, we look after some of the most prestigious properties in South Australia, some of the humble ones and everything in between.
Unlike many gardening and landscaping companies,The Hedge Manis committed to delivering exceptional quality.
We take the time to carefully tailor our services to each client's unique needs, using products and techniques that align with their preferences.
Our focus is on providing a meticulous, high-standard service that leaves every property pristine.
If you share our passion for excellence in horticulture, have a mean eye for detail, take pleasure in a job well done and are eager to join a team that values quality and craftsmanship - we would love to hear from you.
If you have that rare ability to be polished with an edge of sophisticated Rizz about you - we have to hear from you!!
You will enjoy working at The Hedge Man for many reasons:
A team environment: Whilst day to day you will work in teams of 2-3, we regularly all get together for training, tool box, equipment maintenance or simply just to say hi.
We sometimes even drag partners along just so that they can meet the people you talk about when you get home and put a face to a name (and no doubt a cracker of a story);
You are a person: a husband, a mother, a brother, a daughter.
You have a family and personal commitments and we get that you are simply trying (just like the rest of us) to do your best to balance work / life.
As a family friendly business we embrace flexibility and we do our best to help our THM family do their best.
This includes mandated time off in school holidays and at Christmas to spend time with the family;
We are not a revolving door: We hire people we want to lift up and encourage to be the best they can be.
We actively encourage technical specialisation and pay for additional training and qualifications;
Our wages are not only significantly above Award but (from our intel)



the best in Adelaide because we value the skills and experiences you have and we want you to feel appreciated.
Each and every pay cycle we pay bonuses for qualifications, skills sets, leadership responsibilities and commissions; and
Team Leaders are allocated a 4WD ute (that is theirs to love and hold all week and weekends and can be used for personal trips), petrol card, mobile phone, tablet, winter and summer uniforms, a mountain of Stihl equipment and 8 x 6 caged tipper trailers.
Responsibilities and Duties:
You could work on any or all of the following:
Re-establishing or augmenting gardens (soft landscaping) in residential properties;
Assisting onsite groundskeeper teams in the maintenance of wineries, private schools, expansive private estates and heritage properties;
Taking stewardship of, maintaining and improving the gardens of our prestigious residential clients; and
Providing maintenance visits to help clients with IPM, restorative and formative pruning, general garden care and, most importantly, to provide a knowledgeable information source to help them enjoy their green space, whatever its designated purpose.
All Applicants must have the following:
2 years' + experience in providing gardening services through a gardening business to different clients (sorry but no, doing gardening for your grandma doesn't count);
Full Australian driver's license and solid experience towing (which includes reversing!) trailers;
Confidence and experience of working at the top of 3mH + ladders;
Physically fit with positive upper body strength to comfortably handle combis, extension poles, chainsaws etc all day;
Reliable, punctual, hardworking and a real team player (no-one likes a slacker);
Well presented with a polite and polished demeanour, good communication skills and the ability to comfortably talk to clients about their love of gardens (My name's Bond, James Bond);
A focus on following procedures and doing things "The Hedge Man Way" (because, well, there is a reason why we are the best of the best);




Strong commitment to safe work practices (seriously - no joking around when it comes to being safe); and
A good sense of humour.
Applicants for the Amenity Pruning Teams must have the following:
Horticultural: solid plant identification and care requirements of screening plants, seasonally pruned plants and those used for topiary and espalier;
Edward Scissor Hands: Exceptional pruning skills with electric and petrol hedgers/chainsaws, hedge shears and secateurs on ladders;
Bravery and Confidence: using mechanised cutting machines, working at the top of 4mH + ladders (or even 20m EWPs, 6mH scaffold etc), focusing on a job without constant supervision; and
Attention to Detail: ability to visualise geometry (straight lines, spheres, pyramids), belief that if a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well, pride in your work, awareness not to step on plants, spill fuel on lawns or drive off leaving machines behind on the council verge etc.
Applicants for the Garden Maintenance Teams must have the following:
Heart of Green: a genuine interest in nature and plants, horticulture (how things grow and thrive) and the role of landscapes (culturally, socially, for well being and as "green rooms");
Horticultural: advanced plant recognition, horticultural principles and practices, integrated pest management, irrigation, turf, plant care and seasonal garden planning;
Personality: ability to charm the clients and remember the name of their neighbour's brother-in-law's dog;
Executive Function: excellent organisation skills, forward planning, project delivery, people management, experience with Microsoft 365 software; and
Communication Skills: ability and desire to write good notes, ongoing high level of communication with the Garden Concierge (garden maintenance client liaison) and appropriately engage with the client in a timely manner.
Applicants must have the following (or be willing to obtain prior to employment):
Police clearance;
Working with Children clearance;
Working at Heights; and
Appropriate tickets/ licenses.
Applicants with the following will be viewed favourably:
Cert III or higher in relevant field e.g. Horticulture, Parks and Gardens, Irrigation, Landscape Construction etc;
Training / experience at the Botanic Gardens or within recognised gardens and estates;
Landscape design experience and/or qualification and a portfolio of projects;
Demonstrable skills using excavators, trenchers etc; and/or
EWP (unrestricted) ticket.

📌 Gardeners/Horticulturists/Groundskeepers (Adelaide)
🏢 The Hedge Man
📍 Adelaide